Reglan and restlessness

insomnia shaking restlessness anxiety twitching confusion no sence of wellbeing depression anger clumsyness

I went into the hopital for a bowel resection. They gave me Reglan after the surgery. Within in a day. I had strange feelings, restlessness, edgy and could not stop moving. I walked the hopital for hrs and hrs. One nurse said I was having anxiety attacks and gave me ativan. They released me after 9 days. I was back in another hospital that same night with a bowel obstruction. They pumped me with more reglan. I became very shakey and felt like I was going to fall apart. I stayed in that hospital for 19 days. When they released me I had to go back and see my original surgeon. I told her I thought the reglan was doing strange things to me. She just increased my ativan and told me I had to take it for at least 3 more mos or I could end up back in the hospital with another bowel obstruction. I started to have head shaking episodes about once a week but I still thought it was anxiety. Then after being off reglan for 1yr, I was still having attacks only every night. I saw a neurologist and she said I had permanent damage to my brain from taking Reglan and now I"m on Parkinsons medicine and ativan to try and control the symptons. I will never be the same and would not recommend this drug to anyone.

During a recent acute headache episode, I was given a pain shot as well as an injection of Reglan, and then given Reglan 10 mg QID. After the injection, I began experiencing horrible restlessness and could not seem to sit still. While then progressing on to the oral medication, I soon began experiencing extremely painful muscle spasms throughout my body, as well as weakness, right eye twitching, neck spasms that radiated down the front and back-side of the neck and chest, trouble with swallowing, and developed near lockjaw, only speaking like a ventriloquist. I even thought I had developed tetanus from a recent thorn in my finger. Well, my symptoms were due to REGLAN and should this happen to anyone else, STOP the medication IMMEDIATELY and notify your physician. In my case, I am taking Benadryl to counteract the extrapyramidal side-effects/dystonia. My symptoms all occurred within days of the Reglan; the injection symptom of agitation was more of an immediate reaction that continued to occur with the oral form of medication.